Brenda Blethyn Quotes

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

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• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I'm a normal guy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Guy
  • Normal

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Me
  • Action

• I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Sea
  • Resort
  • Skyscrapers

• I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Mind
  • Worry
  • Finding

• Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Water
  • Quality

• A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

  

  Kajol
  • Good
  • Film
  • Poor

• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Art
  • Friends

• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Baby
  • Innovation
  • Clothes

• I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

  

  Edith Cavell
  • Death
  • Fear

• An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.

  

  Gary Player
  • Up
  • Night
  • Friend

• Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther. … as you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Decision
  • Goals

• Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Democracy

• A little longer yet - a little longer,Shall violets bloom for thee, and sweet birds sing;And the lime branches where soft winds are blowing,Shall murmur the sweet promise of the Spring!

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Sweet
  • Promise
  • Spring

• Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Success
  • Failure

• I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Life
  • Live
  • Chicago

• The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Want
  • Faith
  • Belief

• Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

  

  John Galsworthy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Future

• We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Help

• Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

  

  Brenda Blethyn